private art gallery

downtown

This study explores how a connection can be made to the street front as it physically and visually guides visitors through the space. Entryways at the front and rear of the building draws the pedestrian in and down to a small sunken courtyard. Here, a light well open to the sky directs the view upwards into the upper level galleries. Thus a connection is immediately made to draw the visitor upward to explore the spaces above. The same light well also provides views down into the courtyard from inside as well as indirect natural daylight into the galleries.

The front brick facade creates a pattern of solid and voids as bricks are omitted in a pattern where density decreases as the floors increase, providing minimal glimpses of the outside world by the visitor and inside the space to the pedestrian on the street. A similar pattern can be found on the rear facade, however instead of subtracting bricks from the facade, bricks are extruded to create a three dimensional facade.